It's hard to believe that I've now reached the 6-month point of my treatment for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) at Roswell Cancer Center in Buffalo. My family doctor here in Utica caught the abnormality during normal blood work back in May of last year. My white blood count was elevated and the disease was officially diagnosed by Dr. Samir Desai at the Utica Cancer Center a few weeks later.
There is a team of angels that volunteer their time to fly the sickest of patients to and from important medical appointments and life saving surgeries. They're based out of Western New York.
Scientists from Stanford Medicine glued two proteins together and as a result, they may very well have created a scenario where cancer cells self destruct.
Tragically, through all of this, the family had to endure the loss of Amy's mother Pamela, who lost her battle with metastatic cervical cancer a little more than a year ago following a more than 10-year cancer fight of her own.
Meet 9-year-old Marshall. He's a superhero fighting congenital heart disease. But he wants to fight villains on the big screen. His wish is coming true for World Wish Day.
My dad passed in May of 2022. Even though I was with my dad the day that he died, I do not feel like he visited me after his passing, as he promised he would.
We had a deal.